You are being ripped off

[elfs]

From National Geographic, this chart maps health care spending, in dollars, to life expectancy in North America and Europe.

If you're an American, you are being ripped off. You pay more than twice as much, and get significantly sub-standard outcomes. Your value per dollar is the worst in the developed world.

What's wrong with us as a nation that we don't have a value per dollar relationship like Japan's? If not Japan, which some people will unhelpfully shout is more homogenous than the United States, how about Spain, or Austrialia?

That aside, it's a very nifty infographic, encompassing four pieces of data: cost per person, life expectancy, political situation, and frequency of physician care.

Comments

[mundens.livejournal.com]

We want more health care than we want to pay for

Actually, in the USA, you should be demanding far more more health care for what you're currently paying. It's pretty easy to spend an average of $8000 per person a year and get good health care if you're not crippled by insurance, drug company, and hospital, profiteers taking $6,000 of that $8,000, effectively leaving only $2,000 worth of actual health care per person.